Garment-button.



L. D. VAN VALKENBURG.

GARMENT BUTTON. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. a, 1907.

Patented Oct. 6, 1908.

LEVI D. VAN VALKENBURG, OFHOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS.

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, Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. c, 1908.

Application filed September 3, 1907. Serial No. 391,090.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, LEVI D. VAN VALKEN- BURG, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, and resident of Holyoke, in the county of Hampden andState of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Buttons, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact-description. I

This invention relates to improvements in garment buttons, and moreparticularly those for use on belt trousers, that is trousers on whichthe buttons are located on the inside of the waist band.

The object of the invention is to provide the buttons for trousers to belocated and fastened on the inside of the waist band 7 thereof, toserve, when desired, as the susv the button,

. ing the form pender buttons, and to also serve whether the suspendersare employed or not as draw-. ers supports.

The lnvention consists in a button having means for attachment thereofon the trousers and provided with a button substantially verticallylocated on the exposed face of the button and upwardl 0 en relatively tothe latter and serviceab e or receiving engagement therewith of the tape100 s with which drawers are commonly provi ed, whereby suchundergarments are not only satisfactorily supported, but whereby thesupporting engagement, and the disengagement, thereof relativel T to thetrousers may be most convenient y accomplished.

The invention consists in a button constructed as hereinabove describedin conjunction with the accompanying drawings and set forth in theclaims.

In the drawings ,Figure 1 is a view showing the inside waist bandportion of a pair of trousers, an adjacent portion of the trousers, andone of the buttons being provided on theinner side of the trousers band,in enagement with which is one of the suspender loops and also the tapeloop of the drawers. Fig. 2 is a sectional v1ew on line 2- 2, Fig. 1.Fig. '3 is a sectional view vertically through drawn on a larger scale;Fig. 4 of the button at its hook or rong provided side. Line 3'3, onFig. 4 indicates the lane on which the section Flg. 3 is taken. Figs. 5and 6 are views similar to Figs. 3 and 4, but showing a slight change inthe formation, Fig. 5 bein taken on the line 55, Fig. 6. Fig. 7 is a panview showis a face view of blank from which the im roduced. Figs. 8and proved buttonis v ll views of another form are sectional and of thebutton.

' In the drawings,-A represents the button shown as made of thin orsheet metal convexed or cup-shaped, so that the back of the button hasthe character of a more or less bulky teat with erforations atherethrough for attachment 0 the button on the garment by sewing, whilethe marginal portions of the buttons are more or less nearly plane. Thebutton is made with an extension B integrally united with a button bodyat the lower edge portion of the latter and extended upwardly centrallyacross the face of the button, and free or open at its upper end toconstitute an engagement hook.

In Figs. 1 and 2 :1: represents the waist band portion of a pair oftrousers, the button A being represented as .sewed on the inner facethereof, y representing one of the suspender loops engaged with thebutton as usual; w represents an upper portion of .a

air of drawers and 2 represents the tape oop with which the latter isprovided,having its supporting engagement with the hook of the button.And in said Fig. 1, the confest without further explanation.

The button is practicably produced from a sheet metal blank, such asrepresenteddn ton, as shown in Fig. 5,- near its extremity;

wardly curved, the hook in this form constitutingia guard against theloop everbeing lifted or working out from engagement, although, ofcourse, for the urposed disengagement, the hook may e readily forwardlys rung.

In the button represented in Figs. 8 and'Q, the hook B is made uitewide, and it has a circular a erture d t ere'through, of a size somewhatarger than the area on the back of tions 0. a are comprised.

.venience and utility of this button-is mani less separated/from. theexposed face of thethis end portion being: outwardly and upv Fig. 7, ofcircular form having extended from the button within which the sewingperfora- In the button having the parts constructed i and arranged ashere shown, the hook constitutes no obstacle to the most convenientsewing of the button onto the garment, it being practicable, as readilyunderstood, to use the needle and thread backward and forward throughthe aperture d.

I claim:

A garment button comprising a sheet metal body portion having a centralperforated teat stamped thereinto and formed with an integral radialtongue bent upon said body, portion from the edge thereof and extendingtransversely thereacross, said 1 tongue being disposed adjacent theconcave face of the teat and serving as a garment sup porting hook.

Signed by me at Springfield, Mass, in presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

LEVI D. VAN VALKENBURG.

Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLows, G. R. DRISOOLL.

